You misunderstand. Nintendo is introducing a monthly subscription to play online, similar to Xbox and PS4. Whereas those consoles give you several free games a month, playable as long as you maintain your subscription, Nintendo will be offering... Your choice of either an NES or SNES game a month... Which you can’t…

“Is not meant to replace the 3DS (per nintendo), but whose specs are not just sad for a console, which is the usual, but sad for NINTENDO.”

First sale doctrine covers how you resell a single item. It does not cover copying and distribution. Buy a physical disc and resell? First sale has you covered. Distribute a mod that replaces the soundtrack of a game with MP3s from the disc you bought? Not so much.

It’s copyrighted work. It’s not under a creative commons licence. The owner of the work can deny use if they want. Fair use covers parody and criticism, it doesn’t cover taking assets wholesale and sticking them wherever you like as long as you’re not making profit.

If they directly ripped models from an official game, they absolutely have the right to tell other people they can’t do that, profit or no profit.

So here’s something especially eerie. Long running UK soap opera Eastenders used to have a character, Heather, who was a completely devoted George Michael fan. It was one of the cornerstones of her character to the extent that she named her son after him.

Scott Bakula is confused as to why his name has been associated with the above picture of Scott Baio

If you compare its size to its weight, it’s actually lighter than air. It’s literally a parade balloon.

Nintendo have always made their stuff to last. That’s the last thing I’m concerned about. And they don’t look any easier to lose than a Wiimote. Especially if you keep them clipped to that controller hub thing. Then it’s just... A controller.

Well, that looks like basically what we were expecting, in the best possible way. I like it. Skyrim is probably a bigger deal in terms of how it reflects on third party support than it does on anything else, and assuming that’s the upcoming remaster then it’s gotta be at least as powerful as Xbone and PS4. For such a…

Red Dead Alive.

Yup, it’s an artificially created copy of Arceus. And what happened last time humanity tried to clone a mysterious ancient pokemon? We got goddamned Mewtwo.

I think the amount of grind depends entirely on how much you want to get some of the bigger ships. It took me a lot of grinding out credits to get my first Anaconda (although that decreased substantially when I had that and could haul bigger loads much faster), and I honestly can’t even face the rank grind to get a…

I played the first one on the ZX Spectrum back in the day, although admittedly I was young at the time. I’m aware of what the franchise is. Hell, that’s the main reason I bought the new one.

I’ve been back on Destiny the last couple of weeks, but I imagine I’ll be back on ED when 2.2 goes live on Xbox. Need to figure out if I’m going to remove something from my combat Anaconda to make room for fighter bays or if I’m going to spend my credits building something new especially to try those out. Might just…

“They’d uncovered a whole new way to play a game that, by many accounts, hasn’t lived up to its lofty promises.”

I was gonna go with “Paul Pope does Adventure Time” but I like yours too.

I kinda don’t mind the shorter length. It doesn’t feel lazy and half assed in the same way Crota did. It feels more... Concise. KF could be a pretty big time sink, although admittedly I wasn’t playing a huge amount in the last year so I’ve only got maybe half a dozen completions of that one as opposed to several dozen…

My team had pretty much the exact same experience. We went in with a (admittedly random) bunch between 360-370 or so, and found everything up until that last boss challenging but not impossible. Obviously it required work to learn encounters and get in sync, but I think we hit the first stage of the boss in about 2…

Charlie Brooker (the writer behind the excellent Black Mirror) first rose to prominence as a TV personality on the BBC with his show Screenwipe, in which he reviewed TV shows. It was rather good.